Quote Originally Posted by mafiajoey View Post
Quote Originally Posted by generalbulldog View Post
There are no rules to shit talking guys, especially in boxing. See Ali, Tyson, and Mayorga as prime examples. Anything goes. Race, families, little kids, debilitating diseases, etc. That's how boxing has always been.
Eating kids is a joke, Tyson was just ridiculous. So has anyone ever used racial slurs? Like the forbidden N word? I think a disease should be put in that category. I don't recall anyone getting away with the N word
I'm pretty sure when Jack Johnson was HW champ it was used often, especially when the great white hope was being propped up.

Ali called Frazier a gorilla, uncle Tom, a white man's champ, etc. Tyson talked about stomping on little kid's balls during the buildup against Lewis and during his little tirade against some journalist was going crazy about "faggot white boy" and all that. Mayorga talked about killing Spinks in the ring so he can joined his dead mother. Shit talking has always been part of the fight game.

This is no worse.